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By Mary Bellis, About.com Guide to Inventors since 1997

John Napier - Napier's Bones

Monday April 18, 2005
John Napier is famous for creating mathematical logarithms, creating the decimal point, and for inventing Napier's Bones, a calculating instrument. From Innovation Related to Accounting and Math

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October 10, 2008 at 12:41 pm
(1) white,lucille says:

wasup with u son think for all the good things u did for us son.

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